Swartz Creek players celebrate on their home field after beating Lapeer East Friday to improve to 7-0. (Griffin Moores | MLive.com)

Swartz Creek fans cheer and hold up signs reading,

SWARTZ CREEK, MI -- Senior quarterback Jaylen Schoenfield said it best. The Swartz Creek football team is in uncharted waters right now.

Swartz Creek defeated Lapeer East 42-6 Friday night to improve to 7-0 and remain in sole possession of first place in the Flint Metro League standings, after finishing seventh last season. Already on their way to the state playoffs for the first time in school history, the Dragons have won seven games for just the fourth time ever and the first time since 1973.

“It’s been special for everybody,” said Schoenfield, who completed 24-of-32 passes Friday for 303 yards and five touchdowns. “We’ve never done this before and we’re in uncharted waters right now. This is a great feeling. We’re just riding it as a team.”

Under the direction of first-year head coach Brad Brown, a 1991 graduate of Swartz Creek, the Dragons came into this season with some optimism and expectations. But 7-0? A chance at a league title? Making school history?

Did even the Dragons think they could be this good?

“I really can’t answer that,” Brown said. “The boys just keep working harder and harder and just keep finding ways to make plays. I’m just proud. I’m actually a little emotional right now because I’m just so proud of the guys.”

Nonetheless, the Dragons are good. They have proven it. The next two weeks, however, could give them the opportunity to be great.

It won’t be easy.

Swartz Creek closes the regular season with games at Fenton and then home against Linden, respectively. Fenton and Linden both have just one loss on the year and are both still very much alive in the league title race.

Swartz Creek hasn’t beaten Fenton since 2007 and hasn’t beaten Linden since 1962 -- although the Dragons and Eagles didn’t start playing regularly until 2005.

“We’ve set some goals and we’ve reached some, but at the same time with Fenton and Linden (left on the schedule), those are the cream of the crop,” Brown said. “To be in this situation is great. It’s going to be really tough these next couple weeks, but our boys keep working hard and I’m just proud of them.”

One win in the next two games guarantees Swartz Creek at least a share of the Metro League title -- an historical accomplishment on its own. Yet, the Dragons are as confident as ever in their ability to do some truly special.

“We’re all real confident and we’ve just been playing our hearts out,” senior lineman Jacob Campbell said. “Coach Brown really keeps our egos down and doesn’t let us get too big-headed. He wants us to know we’re doing a great job, but we’ve still got work to do. We’ve got to just take it one game at a time and we’ll get to Week 10 (as conference champions).”

Whether it be because of an explosive offense that scores quick and scores often -- to the tune of averaging 37.5 points per game -- or a gritty defense that comes up clutch when needed -- like when the Dragons locked up Ortonville Brandon in the second half of last week’s game and stopped Lapeer East inside the 5-yard line on back-to-back possessions Friday -- rest assured, the Dragons will have a chance in each of their next two games.

“It really is a great balance,” Brown said. “The best part is that our coaches have worked extremely hard, but along with that our boys are trusting us and trusting each other as a team. They’re as close to brothers as you can get and they’ve just come together as a family.”